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W h yas All right, myles, thanks and time you're
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on news radio eight forty w HS. I have one
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of Kentucky's great entertainers in the studio with me. His
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name is Michael Jonathan. It's a pleasure to have you here.
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There's an honor to meet you and and be here.
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You're like a legend in radio. I feel like just
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I just pale in the shadow of your aura.
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You do. You do shows every week, don't you with
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live audience. Yeah.
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Wood Song's all time radio hour. Uh huh.
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That's it's a great name to start with.
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It is.
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I love the way you describe yourself in here too
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at the beginning of this book folk singer, painter, song farmer,
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and tree hugger.
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All It's true. All is I live in a log
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cabin outside of Lexington on seven acres, so I, you know,
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heep my home with with fallen trees and we have
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a big organic garden. And I'm a folk singer. So
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I travel America with a guitar and banjo. But on
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Mondays we land in Lexington and we do this broadcast.
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So it's a it on television's k ETPBS stations nationwide
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it's on the RFD television network nationwide. It's on five
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hundred and twenty seven terrestrial radio stations cool, It's on
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the air from New Zealand to New York, Australia to Ireland,
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all across America. But it's not on the air at
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Louisville Public Radio. So go figure you're.
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Going to have to talk to our people before you
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leave the building, that's right. But you're taking Kentucky's story
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to the universe.
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Yes. Well, and oddly enough, Kentucky Tourism Secretary Kasbian Commissioner
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manage that they underwrite. They're the underwriter for the wood
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songs broadcast now. So for a lot of reasons, and
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it's what a great partnership that's turned out to because
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I believe that Kentucky is the comfortable rocking chair of
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America's front porch, and the music that comes from here
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is global and it needs to be celebrated.
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It's pretty fantastic. Well, just to hear it expressed in
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that term, because I feel that way about the Commonwealth.
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It's like we have a gentility that people need to
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know about.
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You know, hear me out on this Terry. I'm not
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from Kentucky. But sometimes it takes an outsider. If I
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can call myself that I've been here a long time,
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another thirty years, I'll be local. But it takes sometimes
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it takes an outsider to reflect how like a mirror,
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how beautiful a community a region is, because the folks
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that live there are used to it. They don't notice
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it anymore because they're used to it. And when I
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came to Kentucky, it was like, oh my goodness, this
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place is gorgeous and wonderful, and the people are so
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kind and family oriented. It's very much, very much a
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front porch community the entire Commonwealth.
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So you grow up in New York State, you wind
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up on a radio station in Texas.
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I did, right on the Mexican border.
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You drove straight there because somebody offered you a job.
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And I was eighteen years I was eighteen years old,
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graduated high schoo and a friend called me up and said, hey, dude,
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you want to work at a radio station. I was like, sure, dude,
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and I got in my little Toyota with three hundred
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thousand miles, was automatic with a bad starter, and I thought,
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if I turned this thing off, I didn't go nowhere,
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and sure enough it died as soon as I got
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to Laredo. But it's kla R radio as a five
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minute walk from the from the Rio Grand. Here's what
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was weird. I grew up in Beacon, New York, right
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on the Hudson Rivers a mile wide, and I always
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heard of the tails of people swimming across the Rio
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Grand to their freedom and coming to America. And I
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got there. It's a creek, right, they're walking across this thing.
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I was so disappointed.
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They're jumping.
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Yeah right, But I'll tell you what they are. They're
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very sweet and very kind. And the food, oh my god,
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the fajitas and mesquite girls and fifty five gallon oil
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drums that they cook it, and with the onions on
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top of the mesquite coals. I mean, I gained twenty
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pounds just thinking about it.
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I've never eaten better than San Antonio. Oh, it's wonderful,
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wonder So you're the all ninetyj guy.
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Yeah, twelve twelve to six am. That's what they give you,
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the timeslot they give you in radio when you suck
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and you're learning.
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It's a learning crowd. And somehow the song Turnturn Turn
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comes up, and then what happens?
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Well, I grew up next to a guy in Beacon,
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New York, right on the mountain, right next door to me.
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It was a very pleasant older fellow that claimed to
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be a musician. But he played the banjo. And it's like,
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I told you that unless you can plug it into
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a young New York rock and roller teenager, unless you
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can plug it in, it's not a.
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Real interestudent, Come on, banjo? What I know?
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Right? So I was at the radio stations about four
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in the morning. I played Roger mcgwinn and the birds turn, Turn, Turn.
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Here comes We're hearing the sound of it. So what
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happens when this song comes on? I looked at the
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song information.
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I noticed it was written by my neighbor, and I
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was like, oh, that's who Pete Seeger is.
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The real Petal was your neighbor and you thought it
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was some I just got an.
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I played with his kids. I was there and I
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called him up. I was like, Pete, I just found
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out that you're Pete Seeger. And the long posity he goes, well,
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I have been all my life, that was his answer.
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I said, I want to be a focusinger. Too, what
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do I do? And he says, go to the Appalachian Mountains.
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Don't go to college, don't go to school, don't play
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in bars. Go to the Appalachian Mountains and learn from
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the people who make the music. And that's what I did.
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Landed in Mousey, Kentucky. Mousie, mouse Kentucky, not County, Kentucky.
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Well, how'd you make a living? How'd you feed yourself?
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I started performing in schools. I started performing earth concerts
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about nature and the environment, and then the Department Natural
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Resources heard about it, and they they got behind me
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on it, and I ended up playing to about three
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and a half million kids in fourteen states. Oh my
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goodness from my home base in Mousey, Kentucky.
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The texture of life in mouse Kentucky, it was wonderful. Yeah,
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it's just a different place, a different feeling. And people
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were they suspicious of you. Who's this guy rolling in here?
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They have a naturally you know, we're working on a
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motion picture called Caney Creek. If your listeners go to
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caneycreekmovie dot com with the ccneycreekmovie dot com. They have
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a reason to be suspicious of outsiders. But here I
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was this young guy with a banjo, and I was
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very non threatening and I wasn't there to change anything.
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I just wanted to learn their songs. I mean I
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went up and down the hallers with my guitar and banjo,
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knocking on doors, learning scores of versions of Shady Grove
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and this and that. Knuncle Dave Macon and Stringbean and
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these old timer musicians. Was it was like it was like,
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it's what you do when you're footloose and fiance free.
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You go, you go around and you learn this stuff,
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and it was wonderful.
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The photo on that website is so stunning caneycreekmovie dot com.
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It's an aerial photo of that area as a pilot,
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I know that whole cloud layer that goes down between
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those hollers is so gorgeous in the early morning. But
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that photo that you have on there is unbelievable. So
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I see. The film's name is Caney Creek, The Legend
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of Alice Lloyd. Yeah, so what are your It says
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the screenplay in the story you write.
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I finished the completed the screenplay. We've had it option
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three times and we're working on it for the fourth time.
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Making the movie is like molasses flowing uphill in winter.
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But we're going after a hardcore. Now. This is one
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of Kentucky's most stunningly true stories that needs to be told,
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especially at a time when America needs to be reminded
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the qualities that made it such an amazing, wonderful place.
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And there's no better place to tell that story from
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the most misunderstood, mysterious romantic region in the nation, which
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is the Appalachian Mountains.
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No doubt. So your show comes together every Monday, and
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then people just drift in and they're part of the audience,
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and that's.
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The live, live audience. Wood Songs actually has a bigger
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audience than the Grand Ole Lopry. Really, if I can
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explain that, because that sounds breggadocious, and I don't mean
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to be.
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It's just a fact. It's not your nature.
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Well it's just a I'm just saying it's a fact.
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Wood Songs Number one is all volunteer run. Even the
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artists that come on the show come on their own.
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They pay their own travel there. You know, whether it's
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Roger McGuinn or Judy Collins, Bayla Fleck, Peter Yarrow who
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just passed away. You know, all these amazing artists that
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come and appear on Wood Songs do so as volunteers.
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The entire crew is volunteer. It goes free to public radio,
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free to public television, free to RFD television network, free
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to American Forces Radio Network on the air, and two
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different channels, and one hundred and seventy seven nations, plus
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every single military base in the world, every US Naval
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ship in the world, every Coastguard vessel sailing in North America,
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plus lesson plans into schools. And now you know why
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Folk Rhymes was broke. Nobody's paid a dime. But that
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was the only bit. Mister Jim Host saw that, and
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he looked at what we were doing and how we
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were doing it, and he became a champion of Wood Songs,
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knowing that this was the most unusual thing in the
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world to try to pull off, and he knew how
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hard it was. And without mister Host, Wood Songs wouldn't
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be here today.
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I told him you were coming in, and he noted,
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how what a special person you are. If you could
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hang around a little bit, I want to talk more
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because I know you're trying to get people to donate
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musical instruments to help schools.
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Well, we're collecting a thousand instruments to help the musicians
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who lost everything in the storms of Helen.
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Oh Helene.
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Yeah, we'll tell everybody when we come back.
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Do that too, because we also need to talk more
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about your movie, and I want to ask you about
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the Bob Dylan movie as well.
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It's none. Yeah, yeah, I just saw ahead.
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Michael is he's got a book called Wood Songs five
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and it's Michael Jonathan's name, and he's got a pretty
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impressive global reach with Kentucky's story. It's a beautiful thing.
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Back in a few on news Radio eight forty w
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h A s continuing our conversation with Michael Jonathan. He's
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heard around the world, perhaps by millions of ears. I'm
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thinking over the years. Certainly that makes sense.
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Doesn't It's a large audience for wood Songs, large audience show.
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He originates out of Lexington. He lives near Lexington in
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a log cabin. Are you alone, Abe, Lincoln, Are you
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alone in that log cabin? No?
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Okay, there's there's a wife in two twins.
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That's well, that's redundo twins as opposed to three.
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They're ten years old, that's right. Right, So it's and
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you heat with woodstove. Yeah, chop wood in in the
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summer and burn it in the winter, so.
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You're a bit of a lumberjack, you know.
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It's that it's that old folks singer song farmer Pete
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Seagery thing that I grew up around. You know. My
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favorite book when I was a kid was Walden Henry
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David Thurrough and that whole earth protection thing. I started
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performing earth concerts when I moved to mouse Kentucky. That
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was the beginning of my career, you know, performing in
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literally thousands of schools earth concerts, concerts about the earth
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and nature and the environment and rural history. And it
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was just a wonderful way to start a folk music
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career because it was very organic, and it was rustic
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and it was real. Matter of fact. There's a wonderful
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lady here in Louisville, Caroline Embry, who helped oversee and
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book scores of schools that I performed in just in
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Jefferson County. So I mean I performed all over the
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nation those earth concerts.
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But the show that comes out of Lexington. For those
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who weren't listening to our earlier segment.
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Well, they should have because you're a big deal and
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they should be tuned in.
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Well, they had to work until five o'clock, and now
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we're there. It is licensed through public TV and radio.
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And wood Song's airs on public television nationwide, including k ET.
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It airs on public radio stations nationwide, not Jefferson, not
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Louisville public radio. But it's on the air. You're on
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here' on WHS, which is a big deal. The reason
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that they don't air it is surprising that I'll tell
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you off the air what they said. But it airs
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on American Forces Radio Network and one hundred and seventy
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seven nations. That's important to us because we're bringing a
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piece of America, the music of America's front Porch to
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one hundred and seventy seven nations.
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That's what it says on your banjo. I love that. Yeah.
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Yeah, we need front porch around the.
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World exactly right, front ports around the world. And you're
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taking Kentucky imagery, yeah and sound. So when you go
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on stage, you have people that you said, pay their
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own way to come and be a part of it.
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All the artists they come from from Australia, Canada, Italy, Europe, Ireland,
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all across America to come to Lexington to be on
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Wood Songs. They pay their own way to get there.
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it just runs an hour.
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we're done exactly at seven point fifty nine.
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sitting there enthralled.
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Yeah, they come every week, forty four weeks a year.
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They've been doing it. We just did show number one thousand,
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one hundred and thirty and we kicked back in on
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January twenty seven. Now we're using that media imprint the
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power of the audience. Every time that there's a national
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natural disaster that we can help with, we collect one
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thousand instruments and we return them to the musicians who
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lost everything in those storms. It started with the tornadoes
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when I saw Governor Basheer on television with tears in
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his eyes and said, you know, the camera lens is
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not wide enough to take in all this damage. I
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was like, well, we got to do something. Yeah, So
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we have this beautiful thing called Wood Songs. Will the
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audience respond? And we collected a thousand instruments. We went
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to Mayfield in Dawson Springs the line. If you go
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to woodsongs dot com, click on the Helene artwork and
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you'll you'll see the tornado and the flood links and
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you'll see pictures of literally hundreds of people lined up.
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two year old man waited two hours in line, and
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he finally comes to the table and he says, I
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need me a Martin guitar. Wow, and which if you
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know guitars, that's the Rolls Royce guitars, and we had
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one donated. It's in the truck. But I was thinking
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of a you know, eighteen year old Billy strings type
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of a kid that was, you know, gonna want this instrument.
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He goes, now it has to I said, I've got
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all kinds of guitars. It goes, no, it has to
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be a Martin guitar. So well why? And it turns
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out the tornado came and took his home. And what
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he did is every night for fifty two years, he
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would sit on his couch with his Martin guitar and
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sing his beautiful wife one song every night before he
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went to bed. With his Martin guitar, and the tornado
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came took his home, it took his Martin guitar, and
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they found his wife two hundred feet away, and he
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lost his wife as well. And all he wanted was
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a Martin guitar to sit at her grave every night
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and sing to her the way he did for fifty
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two years. But of course it had to be that
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Martin guitar. And when I pulled it out of the
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truck and I gave it to this eighty two year
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old man in Mayfield, he the tears in his eyes
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and was like, that's why we do this.
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So when the storms hit western North Carolina and in
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eastern Tennessee, we're doing it again. We're collecting another thousand instruments.
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There's drop off points all over Kentucky, all over the nation.
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Here in the Louisville it's Bellarmine University, Mom's music Store,
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the Doop Shop, Danny Max's Pizza, Mercurio's Music and restaurer
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of bar. Bring your instrument that if you've got an
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instrument in your closet, if it's under your bed, if
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it's not being played right, it needs to be played,
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give it to us, and we're on March ninth. We're
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going to Warren Wilson College outside of Asheville, North Carolina.
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polish them up, put new strings on them, and there's
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gonna be hundreds of people lined up that lost everything
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in the storms of Helleen. I know California is on
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top of everybody's mind right now, but that does not
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erase what happened to the people in those mountains.
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It's still a mess over there. We know that, all right.
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Here's the list again. If you have a musical instrument
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in your home. Bellerman University that's on Newburgh Road. Mom's
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Music Stores on Melwood Avenue used to be a tumbleweed.
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As a matter of fact, people know what that means.
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Little background there, that's right, the do Wop shops on
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and Mercurio's Music and Resto bar is on Richland Avenue.
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You talking about not just Brandy kind.
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eastern Tennessee. The storm completely demolished their music department. They
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lost everything that they had. The kids have nothing. So
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we're looking for guitars, banjos, mandolins, flutes, trumpets, cellos, anything
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that you have that is in good condition and playable.
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We're giving it for free to all these musicians, just
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like we did during the tornadoes when the floods hit Appalachia.
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We're doing it again for the musicians of Helleen, and
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we need your help. Go to woodsongs dot com click
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on the Halleen artwork. You'll see all the drop off
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points how we're doing it, when we're doing it, and
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we need you to respond because these folks. There was
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report this morning FEMA is kicking folks out of the
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hotel rooms right now. They're homeless. There's hundreds of people.
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I was just in Johnson City doing TV just a
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couple of days ago, and the reporters are saying that
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they're homes. They're living in heated tents and it's five
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degrees out. It is not oh over what happened to them.
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I know California is serious and it's happening now, but
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you know how things fall below the fold after a while,
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of course, right, you know what I'm talking about. That's
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an old newspaper expression, but that's okay, yeah right, well, uh,
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that falls out of favor, I mean people's falls out
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of mind because gets pushed out of existence, you know,
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the way the way the media works so fast and
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furious thing and the things drop off the radar, and
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uh and we're we're we're determined to restore the music
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of the front porches of those mountains. And that's what
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we're doing.
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Wood Songs. How do people get in your show? By
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the way, you have to go online and get tickets.
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You just mail your contact information on a twenty dollars
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bill and.
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That's how that works.
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That's how No, no, you just send in your sending
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your CD to the show, go to the submissions page
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of woodsongs dot com. And uh, you know, we have
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We've had artists from across Kentucky, across America, everyone from uh,
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Roger mcgwin, Peter Yarrow who just passed away, who was
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featured in the Bob Dylan movie.
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You know, let's talk about now, Timothy Schallameye people love.
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They're saying he's Ed.
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Norton, nailed, Pete Seeger perfect so Ed Norton nailed the
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acting guy that you knew. Yes, acting was great. The script,
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there's a lot of discrepants and the best part of
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the movie and I won't give it away, And this
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really happened. Joan Baez is on stage in Newport. Bob
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Dylan is waiting to come on. She turns to him
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and gives him the finger, and that's in the movie.
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And that really happened.
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That's good. But you grew up next to next door
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to Pezze Pete Seeger in upstate New York, and that's
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why you had no idea he was famous until later.
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This was a nice neighbor that played the banjo.
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Oh that's so cool.
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and his wife Toshi was amazing. And we lost him
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too young at ninety four years old.
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How about.
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But the movie is a great reintroduction of that era
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American music, folk music. Who Pete Seeger was, which you know,
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they didn't portray him the best. They didn't portray Woody
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Guthrie the best either, but you got to do make
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the movie. They made poetic license. Yeah right, Michael Jonathan,
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he's host of wood Songs. It's on in Lexington starting
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again late January. We kicked back into production January twenty seventh.
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Wood Songs Kids is on the air. You can find
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us on k e T the Kentucky Channel stations all
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over the world.
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Thanks for telling our Kentucky story to the universe.
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You know what, And you're a big part of it.
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And Terry, you are a legend. It's an honor to
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sit in the reflection of your aura.
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Fun to be with it, brother man. But don't ask
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me to help you chop Wood.
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No, you can carry my banjo.
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I'm gonna bring a space heater. Come visit you in
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the winter, right, Michael Jonathan and his book. By the way,
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Wood Song's fantastic, got a CD in it. There's this one.
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Number five is based on Vincent van Gogh's work. So
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you're you're just a clever guy. You're doing all kinds
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of different things at once.
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Well, it's a lot of work to do this thing
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they call playing. I hope, yeah, I hope you get
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your movie made. We're working on it all right. And
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that movie website one more time is kneycreekmovie dot Com.
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There's a lot about this guy. He's he's a multitasker
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extraordinary back in a minute on news radio.
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Wait forty w h ass you know?
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Blacking for cowards and lawyers. Dreams don't belong to the rich.
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W h yas All right, myles, thanks and time you're
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on news radio eight forty w HS. I have one
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of Kentucky's great entertainers in the studio with me. His
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name is Michael Jonathan. It's a pleasure to have you here.
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There's an honor to meet you and and be here.
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You're like a legend in radio. I feel like just
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I just pale in the shadow of your aura.
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You do. You do shows every week, don't you with
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live audience. Yeah.
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Wood Song's all time radio hour. Uh huh.
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That's it's a great name to start with.
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I love the way you describe yourself in here too
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at the beginning of this book folk singer, painter, song farmer,
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and tree hugger.
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All It's true. All is I live in a log
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cabin outside of Lexington on seven acres, so I, you know,
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heep my home with with fallen trees and we have
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a big organic garden. And I'm a folk singer. So
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I travel America with a guitar and banjo. But on
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Mondays we land in Lexington and we do this broadcast.
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So it's a it on television's k ETPBS stations nationwide
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it's on the RFD television network nationwide. It's on five
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hundred and twenty seven terrestrial radio stations cool, It's on
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the air from New Zealand to New York, Australia to Ireland,
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all across America. But it's not on the air at
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Louisville Public Radio. So go figure you're.
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Going to have to talk to our people before you
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leave the building, that's right. But you're taking Kentucky's story
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to the universe.
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Yes. Well, and oddly enough, Kentucky Tourism Secretary Kasbian Commissioner
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manage that they underwrite. They're the underwriter for the wood
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songs broadcast now. So for a lot of reasons, and
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it's what a great partnership that's turned out to because
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I believe that Kentucky is the comfortable rocking chair of
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America's front porch, and the music that comes from here
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is global and it needs to be celebrated.
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It's pretty fantastic. Well, just to hear it expressed in
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that term, because I feel that way about the Commonwealth.
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You know, hear me out on this Terry. I'm not
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from Kentucky. But sometimes it takes an outsider. If I
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can call myself that I've been here a long time,
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another thirty years, I'll be local. But it takes sometimes
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it takes an outsider to reflect how like a mirror,
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how beautiful a community a region is, because the folks
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that live there are used to it. They don't notice
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it anymore because they're used to it. And when I
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kind and family oriented. It's very much, very much a
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front porch community the entire Commonwealth.
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So you grow up in New York State, you wind
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I did, right on the Mexican border.
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graduated high schoo and a friend called me up and said, hey, dude,
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you want to work at a radio station. I was like, sure, dude,
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and I got in my little Toyota with three hundred
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thousand miles, was automatic with a bad starter, and I thought,
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if I turned this thing off, I didn't go nowhere,
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and sure enough it died as soon as I got
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to Laredo. But it's kla R radio as a five
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minute walk from the from the Rio Grand. Here's what
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was weird. I grew up in Beacon, New York, right
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on the Hudson Rivers a mile wide, and I always
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heard of the tails of people swimming across the Rio
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Grand to their freedom and coming to America. And I
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got there. It's a creek, right, they're walking across this thing.
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I was so disappointed.
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They're jumping.
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Yeah right, But I'll tell you what they are. They're
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very sweet and very kind. And the food, oh my god,
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the fajitas and mesquite girls and fifty five gallon oil
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drums that they cook it, and with the onions on
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top of the mesquite coals. I mean, I gained twenty
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pounds just thinking about it.
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I've never eaten better than San Antonio. Oh, it's wonderful,
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wonder So you're the all ninetyj guy.
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Yeah, twelve twelve to six am. That's what they give you,
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the timeslot they give you in radio when you suck
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It's a learning crowd. And somehow the song Turnturn Turn
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comes up, and then what happens?
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New York, right on the mountain, right next door to me.
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be a musician. But he played the banjo. And it's like,
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I told you that unless you can plug it into
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a young New York rock and roller teenager, unless you
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can plug it in, it's not a.
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Real interestudent, Come on, banjo? What I know?
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Right? So I was at the radio stations about four
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in the morning. I played Roger mcgwinn and the birds turn, Turn, Turn.
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Here comes We're hearing the sound of it. So what
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happens when this song comes on? I looked at the
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song information.
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I noticed it was written by my neighbor, and I
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was like, oh, that's who Pete Seeger is.
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The real Petal was your neighbor and you thought it
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I played with his kids. I was there and I
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called him up. I was like, Pete, I just found
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out that you're Pete Seeger. And the long posity he goes, well,
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I have been all my life, that was his answer.
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I said, I want to be a focusinger. Too, what
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do I do? And he says, go to the Appalachian Mountains.
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Don't go to college, don't go to school, don't play
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in bars. Go to the Appalachian Mountains and learn from
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the people who make the music. And that's what I did.
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Landed in Mousey, Kentucky. Mousie, mouse Kentucky, not County, Kentucky.
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Well, how'd you make a living? How'd you feed yourself?
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I started performing in schools. I started performing earth concerts
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about nature and the environment, and then the Department Natural
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Resources heard about it, and they they got behind me
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on it, and I ended up playing to about three
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and a half million kids in fourteen states. Oh my
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goodness from my home base in Mousey, Kentucky.
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The texture of life in mouse Kentucky, it was wonderful. Yeah,
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it's just a different place, a different feeling. And people
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were they suspicious of you. Who's this guy rolling in here?
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They have a naturally you know, we're working on a
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motion picture called Caney Creek. If your listeners go to
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caneycreekmovie dot com with the ccneycreekmovie dot com. They have
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a reason to be suspicious of outsiders. But here I
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was this young guy with a banjo, and I was
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very non threatening and I wasn't there to change anything.
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I just wanted to learn their songs. I mean I
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went up and down the hallers with my guitar and banjo,
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knocking on doors, learning scores of versions of Shady Grove
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and this and that. Knuncle Dave Macon and Stringbean and
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these old timer musicians. Was it was like it was like,
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it's what you do when you're footloose and fiance free.
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and it was wonderful.
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The photo on that website is so stunning caneycreekmovie dot com.
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It's an aerial photo of that area as a pilot,
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those hollers is so gorgeous in the early morning. But
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that photo that you have on there is unbelievable. So
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I see. The film's name is Caney Creek, The Legend
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of Alice Lloyd. Yeah, so what are your It says
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the screenplay in the story you write.
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I finished the completed the screenplay. We've had it option
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three times and we're working on it for the fourth time.
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Making the movie is like molasses flowing uphill in winter.
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But we're going after a hardcore. Now. This is one
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of Kentucky's most stunningly true stories that needs to be told,
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especially at a time when America needs to be reminded
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the qualities that made it such an amazing, wonderful place.
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And there's no better place to tell that story from
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the most misunderstood, mysterious romantic region in the nation, which
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is the Appalachian Mountains.
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No doubt. So your show comes together every Monday, and
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then people just drift in and they're part of the audience,
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audience than the Grand Ole Lopry. Really, if I can
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explain that, because that sounds breggadocious, and I don't mean
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to be.
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It's just a fact. It's not your nature.
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Well it's just a I'm just saying it's a fact.
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Wood Songs Number one is all volunteer run. Even the
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artists that come on the show come on their own.
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They pay their own travel there. You know, whether it's
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Roger McGuinn or Judy Collins, Bayla Fleck, Peter Yarrow who
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just passed away. You know, all these amazing artists that
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come and appear on Wood Songs do so as volunteers.
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The entire crew is volunteer. It goes free to public radio,
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free to public television, free to RFD television network, free
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to American Forces Radio Network on the air, and two
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different channels, and one hundred and seventy seven nations, plus
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every single military base in the world, every US Naval
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ship in the world, every Coastguard vessel sailing in North America,
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plus lesson plans into schools. And now you know why
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Folk Rhymes was broke. Nobody's paid a dime. But that
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was the only bit. Mister Jim Host saw that, and
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he looked at what we were doing and how we
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were doing it, and he became a champion of Wood Songs,
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knowing that this was the most unusual thing in the
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world to try to pull off, and he knew how
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hard it was. And without mister Host, Wood Songs wouldn't
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be here today.
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I told him you were coming in, and he noted,
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how what a special person you are. If you could
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hang around a little bit, I want to talk more
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because I know you're trying to get people to donate
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musical instruments to help schools.
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Well, we're collecting a thousand instruments to help the musicians
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who lost everything in the storms of Helen.
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Yeah, we'll tell everybody when we come back.
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Do that too, because we also need to talk more
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about your movie, and I want to ask you about
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the Bob Dylan movie as well.
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Michael is he's got a book called Wood Songs five
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and it's Michael Jonathan's name, and he's got a pretty
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impressive global reach with Kentucky's story. It's a beautiful thing.
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Back in a few on news Radio eight forty w
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h A s continuing our conversation with Michael Jonathan. He's
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heard around the world, perhaps by millions of ears. I'm
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thinking over the years. Certainly that makes sense.
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Doesn't It's a large audience for wood Songs, large audience show.
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He originates out of Lexington. He lives near Lexington in
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a log cabin. Are you alone, Abe, Lincoln, Are you
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alone in that log cabin? No?
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Okay, there's there's a wife in two twins.
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They're ten years old, that's right. Right, So it's and
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you heat with woodstove. Yeah, chop wood in in the
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summer and burn it in the winter, so.
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It's that it's that old folks singer song farmer Pete
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favorite book when I was a kid was Walden Henry
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David Thurrough and that whole earth protection thing. I started
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performing earth concerts when I moved to mouse Kentucky. That
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was the beginning of my career, you know, performing in
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literally thousands of schools earth concerts, concerts about the earth
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and nature and the environment and rural history. And it
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was just a wonderful way to start a folk music
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career because it was very organic, and it was rustic
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and it was real. Matter of fact. There's a wonderful
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lady here in Louisville, Caroline Embry, who helped oversee and
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book scores of schools that I performed in just in
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Jefferson County. So I mean I performed all over the
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nation those earth concerts.
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who weren't listening to our earlier segment.
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they should be tuned in.
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we're there. It is licensed through public TV and radio.
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It airs on public radio stations nationwide, not Jefferson, not
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Louisville public radio. But it's on the air. You're on
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here' on WHS, which is a big deal. The reason
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that they don't air it is surprising that I'll tell
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you off the air what they said. But it airs
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on American Forces Radio Network and one hundred and seventy
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seven nations. That's important to us because we're bringing a
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piece of America, the music of America's front Porch to
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one hundred and seventy seven nations.
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That's what it says on your banjo. I love that. Yeah.
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Yeah, we need front porch around the.
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World exactly right, front ports around the world. And you're
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taking Kentucky imagery, yeah and sound. So when you go
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on stage, you have people that you said, pay their
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all across America to come to Lexington to be on
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Wood Songs. They pay their own way to get there.
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it just runs an hour.
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we're done exactly at seven point fifty nine.
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one hundred and thirty and we kicked back in on
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January twenty seven. Now we're using that media imprint the
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power of the audience. Every time that there's a national
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natural disaster that we can help with, we collect one
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thousand instruments and we return them to the musicians who
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lost everything in those storms. It started with the tornadoes
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when I saw Governor Basheer on television with tears in
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his eyes and said, you know, the camera lens is
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not wide enough to take in all this damage. I
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was like, well, we got to do something. Yeah, So
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we have this beautiful thing called Wood Songs. Will the
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audience respond? And we collected a thousand instruments. We went
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to Mayfield in Dawson Springs the line. If you go
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to woodsongs dot com, click on the Helene artwork and
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you'll you'll see the tornado and the flood links and
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you'll see pictures of literally hundreds of people lined up.
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two year old man waited two hours in line, and
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he finally comes to the table and he says, I
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need me a Martin guitar. Wow, and which if you
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know guitars, that's the Rolls Royce guitars, and we had
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one donated. It's in the truck. But I was thinking
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of a you know, eighteen year old Billy strings type
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of a kid that was, you know, gonna want this instrument.
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all kinds of guitars. It goes, no, it has to
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be a Martin guitar. So well why? And it turns
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out the tornado came and took his home. And what
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he did is every night for fifty two years, he
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would sit on his couch with his Martin guitar and
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sing his beautiful wife one song every night before he
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went to bed. With his Martin guitar, and the tornado
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came took his home, it took his Martin guitar, and
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they found his wife two hundred feet away, and he
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lost his wife as well. And all he wanted was
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a Martin guitar to sit at her grave every night
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and sing to her the way he did for fifty
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two years. But of course it had to be that
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Martin guitar. And when I pulled it out of the
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truck and I gave it to this eighty two year
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old man in Mayfield, he the tears in his eyes
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and was like, that's why we do this.
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Of course.
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So when the storms hit western North Carolina and in
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eastern Tennessee, we're doing it again. We're collecting another thousand instruments.
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There's drop off points all over Kentucky, all over the nation.
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Here in the Louisville it's Bellarmine University, Mom's music Store,
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the Doop Shop, Danny Max's Pizza, Mercurio's Music and restaurer
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of bar. Bring your instrument that if you've got an
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instrument in your closet, if it's under your bed, if
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it's not being played right, it needs to be played,
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give it to us, and we're on March ninth. We're
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going to Warren Wilson College outside of Asheville, North Carolina.
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We're collecting all these instruments. We're gonna fix them up,
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polish them up, put new strings on them, and there's
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gonna be hundreds of people lined up that lost everything
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in the storms of Helleen. I know California is on
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top of everybody's mind right now, but that does not
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erase what happened to the people in those mountains.
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It's still a mess over there. We know that, all right.
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Here's the list again. If you have a musical instrument
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in your home. Bellerman University that's on Newburgh Road. Mom's
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Music Stores on Melwood Avenue used to be a tumbleweed.
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As a matter of fact, people know what that means.
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Little background there, that's right, the do Wop shops on
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Bardstown Road, Danny Max Pizza is in the Melwood Arts Center,
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and Mercurio's Music and Resto bar is on Richland Avenue.
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So any of those places you can drop off musical instruments.
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You talking about not just Brandy kind.
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You know, we got an email from a school in
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eastern Tennessee. The storm completely demolished their music department. They
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lost everything that they had. The kids have nothing. So
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we're looking for guitars, banjos, mandolins, flutes, trumpets, cellos, anything
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that you have that is in good condition and playable.
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We're giving it for free to all these musicians, just
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like we did during the tornadoes when the floods hit Appalachia.
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We're doing it again for the musicians of Helleen, and
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we need your help. Go to woodsongs dot com click
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on the Halleen artwork. You'll see all the drop off
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points how we're doing it, when we're doing it, and
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we need you to respond because these folks. There was
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report this morning FEMA is kicking folks out of the
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hotel rooms right now. They're homeless. There's hundreds of people.
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I was just in Johnson City doing TV just a
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couple of days ago, and the reporters are saying that
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they're homes. They're living in heated tents and it's five
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degrees out. It is not oh over what happened to them.
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I know California is serious and it's happening now, but
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you know how things fall below the fold after a while,
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of course, right, you know what I'm talking about. That's
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an old newspaper expression, but that's okay, yeah right, well, uh,
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that falls out of favor, I mean people's falls out
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of mind because gets pushed out of existence, you know,
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the way the way the media works so fast and
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furious thing and the things drop off the radar, and
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uh and we're we're we're determined to restore the music
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of the front porches of those mountains. And that's what
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we're doing.
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Wood Songs. How do people get in your show? By
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the way, you have to go online and get tickets.
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You just mail your contact information on a twenty dollars
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bill and.
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That's how that works.
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That's how No, no, you just send in your sending
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your CD to the show, go to the submissions page
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of woodsongs dot com. And uh, you know, we have
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We've had artists from across Kentucky, across America, everyone from uh,
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Roger mcgwin, Peter Yarrow who just passed away, who was
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featured in the Bob Dylan movie.
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You know, let's talk about now, Timothy Schallameye people love.
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They're saying he's Ed.
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Norton, nailed, Pete Seeger perfect so Ed Norton nailed the
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acting guy that you knew. Yes, acting was great. The script,
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there's a lot of discrepants and the best part of
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the movie and I won't give it away, And this
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really happened. Joan Baez is on stage in Newport. Bob
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Dylan is waiting to come on. She turns to him
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and gives him the finger, and that's in the movie.
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And that really happened.
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That's good. But you grew up next to next door
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to Pezze Pete Seeger in upstate New York, and that's
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why you had no idea he was famous until later.
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This was a nice neighbor that played the banjo.
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Oh that's so cool.
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Yeah, he was a good guy, was very supportive, totally supportive,
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and his wife Toshi was amazing. And we lost him
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too young at ninety four years old.
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How about.
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But the movie is a great reintroduction of that era
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American music, folk music. Who Pete Seeger was, which you know,
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they didn't portray him the best. They didn't portray Woody
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Guthrie the best either, but you got to do make
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the movie. They made poetic license. Yeah right, Michael Jonathan,
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he's host of wood Songs. It's on in Lexington starting
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again late January. We kicked back into production January twenty seventh.
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Wood Songs Kids is on the air. You can find
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us on k e T the Kentucky Channel stations all
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over the world.
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Thanks for telling our Kentucky story to the universe.
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You know what, And you're a big part of it.
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And Terry, you are a legend. It's an honor to
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sit in the reflection of your aura.
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Fun to be with it, brother man. But don't ask
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me to help you chop Wood.
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No, you can carry my banjo.
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I'm gonna bring a space heater. Come visit you in
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the winter, right, Michael Jonathan and his book. By the way,
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Wood Song's fantastic, got a CD in it. There's this one.
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Number five is based on Vincent van Gogh's work. So
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you're you're just a clever guy. You're doing all kinds
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of different things at once.
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Well, it's a lot of work to do this thing
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they call playing. I hope, yeah, I hope you get
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your movie made. We're working on it all right. And
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that movie website one more time is kneycreekmovie dot Com.
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There's a lot about this guy. He's he's a multitasker
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extraordinary back in a minute on news radio.
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Wait forty w h ass you know?
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Blacking for cowards and lawyers. Dreams don't belong to the rich.
